Hello everyone, how are you all doing today? It is a marvelous day indeed and I am looking forward to all that can be achieved.
My post today will be on the next topic for the Newbies Initiative Program where I will be talking about HIVE SECURITY.
As we all know, Hive is a lot of things to all of us. It is not just a platform for making posts, it is a means of livelihood for some people, seeing the amount of income that can be generated from it. And to that effect, it has to be made as secure as possible so that everyone that operates on the platform can do so with absolute peace of mind.
In this post, we will be discussing two sub-topics:
2. ACCOUNT RECOVERY
Now let us get to it....
HIVE KEYS
Your Hive account is basically under lock for protection, and you are the only one given access to it. And the only way you can access your account and make use of it is with your keys. These are different from passwords because they are more complex and are difficult to keep to memory. This way, it makes it harder to hack into an account.
There are four types of keys presently on Hive and they have different uses in the blockchain. I will list them below:
MEMO KEY: This is the least powerful key on the blockchain and it is also the least used. It can be used to send and view private messages.
POSTING KEY: This is required for making posts and comments on the blockchain. And also you need the key to follow accounts, upvote and reblog posts, and even mute accounts.
ACTIVE KEY: This particular key has even more uses. It can be used for Hive Power up or down. Also, it can be used for HBD conversions, voting for witnesses, etc.
OWNER KEY: This is the most powerful key on the blockchain and the one that should be guarded most judiciously. It can be used to reset all other keys, and even recover your account. It can also be used to create another masker key in the event that it gets lost.
MASTER KEY: This is the one key that can be used in the event that you would need to recover all your passwords after loosing them for one reason or the other. It is this key that will be required of you. In the picture below, the Master key is the password written at the top of the page. You will find this in the file containing your hive keys which was sent to you when you first opened an account on Hive.
So, now that we have covered all the keys, how do we find them in the blockchain?
STEPS
1. When you open up your blog, click on “WALLET”.
2. Next, you click on “Keys and Permissions”. And that takes you to your keys. Don’t forget to keep them safe.
And now that we are done with keys, let us move on to the next sub–topic.
ACCOUNT RECOVERY
In the event that your account has been lost, like if you got hacked, there are measures that have been put in place to ensure that your account can be recovered. All these can be done provided you follow the required steps. And I will teach you how.
First of all, I need to tell you what a Trustee is. A Trustee is an account that has been attached to yours, so that in the event of you losing your account the Trustee will be used to help you recover it. It is also called a Recovery Account. And you can find out yours at https://hiveblocks.com/@username. You will find out how to recover your account in the following steps.
STEPS
1.Go to this link https://reazuliqbal.com/HiveAccountRecovery/
2.Click on “Recover Account”.
3.Follow the instructions as detailed there. You must first of all generate a new password so you can be given a new Public Owner Key.
4.Send the Public Owner Key to the Trustee.
5.At the final step, put in the required details and click on “Recover Account”.
So friends, this is basically all that we need to know when it comes to Hive security. It is not enough to know these steps though. You have to make sure you keep your keys perfectly safe, in a place you can easily get to them in the event of anything. And also, avoid clicking on phishing links are these are what hackers use to get into accounts.
QUESTIONS AND TASK TO BE GIVEN ON THIS TUTORIAL
And that wraps it up for today’s tutorial, read through it carefully and if you have any questions, it will be treated on the Smile Discord Server on Sunday the 17th of April by 6PM GMT. And after that the next task will be given. Do well to ask your questions during the meeting.
Wow these is insightful and really helpful boss thanks for sharing this Masterpiece with us.
Though I have this problem o, the day I open my account via 3speak, I wasn't sent my master's, i was only sent all the other keys.
So don't know what to do to get the master key.
Okay...
During the server meeting, it will be treated.
Thank you for reading.
Alright boss.
Wow, thank you so much for this detailed tutorial. I didn't know the use of most of these keys before now. Even when I forgot my login password the other time, I thought that was the end of my access to my hive account until @starstrings01 came to my rescue and told me to find my posting key and login into my account with it.
Many thanks, @bruno-kema and all hive learners team, you guys are doing well for us.
Thank you for reading. I'm glad you got value.
Please how do I get an hive id, no one is helping me out please.
What do you mean by an Hive id?
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This is the first time i am hearing about trustee and i just checked and saw who mine is..
Thank you for this amazing information
This is good... We learn on a daily basis.
Thank you for reading.
I learned another new thing today. Never knew there is a procedure to recovering a lost account. Thanks so much @bruno-kema.
You are welcome, I am glad you got value.
Kudos for the great job champ!
This is a very helpful post boss. Before now I knew the uses of all the keys but never really put them in mind as I have not found the need to use the key outside the blockchain.
Thanks for bringing it back to my notice. This is my first time of hearing about the Trustee thingy though.
Thanks for the heads up
Glad to be of help.
Thank you for reading.
Yup...
Good learning Chief, you make it simple as you can, so we can understand it easily
Very good...👍
I try my best.
Thank you for reading.
Youre welcome Capt.
Excellent explanation. thank you very much for your dedication.
I'm glad😇
Previously I knew about the keys contained in the hive all keys and their uses, but I just found out there is a guardian in the hive where we can retrieve the hive account that has been hacked this is a good post, I will learn how I will get the account back I followed the steps you have shared. thanks for sharing
This is really great indeed. I am happy to see that people are getting such massive value.
Good thing you brought this cos even myself here, I do not know what they all mean entirely well.
@temmyttee you need to see this.
Thanks for calling my attention to this @temibot I will look into it.
Awesome... Thank you for reading.
Thanks @bruno-kema for bringing this up at this time and expantiating more on the uses of the keys before I don’t know what they were used for before aside posting key which I’m used to.
Thanks for the tutorial, that’s so thoughtful of you.
As you get to make use of all of them, you will get the hang of it in no time.
Thank you for reading.
Thank you @bruno-kema for this wonderful masterpiece.
All our hiveblog keys should be protected.
Very true, thank you for reading.
It is quite an important post for everyone who wants to secure the account and don't know the importance of keys one keeps.
I knew about the keys usage, account recovery is something I don't know how to perform. I went to the given link, searched my account but I could not find any trustee there. I wanna know how to find or make a trustee?
Okay... We will treat this during the smile meeting on the Discord server later today.
Thank you for reading.
Oh! I won't be in the meeting 😑
Thanks for this lessons boss, it has helped me alot
I'm happy for that.
Thank you for reading.
You highlighted the most important thing is Life or any organisation which is "Security", helpful tips about the functions of the keys and also recovery steps
Thanks allot for sharing
But can't there be three-way authentication set ?... Like it's done in some social media platforms .
But this is really awesome and I appreciate you for sharing 😇😇
Thanks for always bringing out your time to explain most of these things to us. I never knew such thing exist.
Thanks for sharing with us, though I might have had my own experience if recovering my account recently, still it's great to have it share here
This is a really detail lesson sir.
I am glad to be part of this wonderful lesson.
Thanks for sharing with us this interesting lessons.
This is more than a post... It's one of the basics everyone should know. I must confess, you've done a great job, Thumbs up boss, my two hands in the air...lol
More wisdom...
Wow very helpful tutorial for every hive users. Thank you very much my dear 💓💓💓💓
Thanks for the complete guidance altogether
Thank you so much for this. The diagrams make it easy to understand.
Luckily there are options to recover the account. When I created my account more than 8 months ago I read that the passwords could not be recovered and if they were lost there was no way to recover them. That scared me a lot. Of course what I read here is something different, in case someone gets hacked. It is good that there is a mechanism to be able to recover our account in case something like this happens.
A well-explained tutorial.
This is a great tutorial. Can I say we were not lucky when we started hiving? We never had this opportunities. I don't think that lucky is the right word to use. But, maybe we did not get the right informations at the right time, so, we fail and rose a several times before we could stand strong today.
Thanks for this guide.
It’s actually “change account recovery” when you want to set a new recovery account.
This is good to know indeed. Thank you for reading.